The Regional Transportation Committee of Southern Nevada put out a call for projects last year offering a competitive grant to help further economic development, according to Johanna Murphy, the city’s principal planner. North Las Vegas received the grant, which will pay for “livable center” construction.

When Brenda Williams’s husband, Monroe, became one of the Las Vegas Fire Department’s first two African-American employees in July 1963, some of his new coworkers weren’t welcoming. After Monroe’s death in 2012 , Brenda found detailed accounts of the harsh treatment in notes Monroe had written before he died. He’d never told her about it.

Before becoming a North Las Vegas firefighter and recruit training officer, Darcy Loewen played pro hockey for 16 seasons, including five in the National Hockey League and four with the long-gone but fondly remembered Las Vegas Thunder.

Inside the nondescript buildings of the Nevada National Security Site location that dot a sprawling parking lot are the peoplewho help ensure the safety, security and deterrent nature of the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile.